Pursuant to the Motor Vehicle Transport Act, the following exemptions from certain regulatory provisions of the Commercial Vehicle Drivers Hours of Service Regulations have been granted. Each exemption granted was deemed to be in the public interest and includes terms and conditions that are intended to maintain an equivalent level of motor carrier safety. The exemption is available to qualified motor carriers who operate in an industry sector and are not just members of the applicant association. The affected jurisdictions were consulted before the Minister of Transport granted these exemptions:
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Active exemptions
Applicant: Canadian Pacific Railway
The purpose of this exemption is to allow Canadian Pacific Railway and its maintenance of way workers who drive commercial vehicles as part of their duties to take larger periods of daily consecutive off-duty time as an alternative to meeting the mandatory off-duty time requirements of clause 27(b) of the Regulations.
Applicant: Motion Picture Industry
The purpose of the exemption is to allow eligible motor carriers and their drivers to maintain or fill out a paper record of duty status in accordance with s.82 of the Regulations, rather than follow the requirements related to maintaining an electronic record of duty status. This is being done to address the difficulty in utilizing electronic logging devices to monitor drivers for compliance with the Regulations, given that drivers can operate multiple commercial vehicles, for multiple motor carriers, on any given day, and the corresponding lack of interoperability between different models of electronic logging devices.
Applicant: Driveaway-Towaway sector
The purpose of this exemption is to allow eligible motor carriers and their drivers to record their record of duty status in accordance with either s. 77 or s. 82 of the Regulations, as an alternative to the mandatory use of an electronic logging device under s.77. This is being done to address material and operational problems presented by using electronic logging devices to monitor compliance with the Regulations in these specific sectors of the motor carrier industry.
Applicant: Canadian Association of Energy Contractors
The purpose of this exemption is to allow eligible motor carriers and their drivers to avoid the duplication of having to complete both a record of duty status and other industry documents, thereby making use of existing documentation to demonstrate compliance with the work limits, rest requirements, and record-keeping requirements.
Applicant: Fertilizer Canada
The purpose of this exemption is to allow extra-provincial truck undertakings and their drivers to operate under a more flexible work schedule as an alternative to the accumulation of on-duty hours by drivers under either cycle 1 or cycle 2.
Expired exemptions
Expired - Targeted Transport Exemption to Support the Emergency Response to Wildfires in British Columbia and Alberta
The purpose of this exemption is to support efforts by extra-provincial motor carrier undertakings and their drivers engaged in direct assistance to the emergency relief efforts in response to the wildfires in Alberta and British Columbia.
Expired - Applicant: Canadian Pacific Railway
The purpose of this exemption is to allow Canadian Pacific Railway and its maintenance of way workers who drive commercial vehicles as part of their duties to take larger periods of daily consecutive off-duty time as an alternative to meeting the mandatory off-duty time requirements of clause 27(b) of the Regulations.
Expired - Applicant: Driveaway Operations
The purpose of this exemption is to allow eligible motor carriers and their drivers to record their record of duty status in accordance with s. 82 of the Regulations, rather than under s.77. This is being done to address material and operational problems presented by using electronic logging devices to monitor compliance with the Regulations in these specific sectors of the motor carrier industry.
Expired - Targeted Essential Freight Transport Exemption to Support the Emergency Response to wildfires in British Columbia and Yukon
The purpose of this exemption is to support efforts by extra-provincial truck undertakings and their drivers to transport essential supplies and equipment, in direct assistance to the emergency relief efforts in response to the wildfires in British Columbia and Yukon.
Expired - Targeted Essential Freight Transport Exemption to Support the Emergency Response to wildfires in Alberta and Northwest Territories
The purpose of this exemption is to support efforts by extra-provincial truck undertakings and their drivers to transport essential supplies and equipment, in direct assistance to the emergency relief efforts in response to the wildfires in Alberta and Northwest Territories.
Expired - Targeted Essential Freight Transport Exemption to Support the Emergency Response to wildfires in Nova Scotia
The purpose of this exemption is to support efforts by extra-provincial truck undertakings and their drivers to transport essential supplies and equipment, in direct assistance to the emergency relief efforts in response to the wildfires in Nova Scotia.